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Fountain Inn
Book 7 in the Classic Canning series.
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When her employer disappears and leaves a bankrupt business behind, typist Grace Kirkstall finds work with Ben and Helen Brown in the same rambling London building. Their new firm undertakes awkward jobs for clients who need discreet practical help. Its first substantial commission requires them to investigate the Society for Progressive Rehabilitation, a neighbouring organisation that has inherited a fortune under suspicious circumstances.
The enquiry draws Grace, the Browns and architect George Crane into surveillance, house-breaking, romance and genuine danger. Fountain Inn is Canning’s transition from expansive comic fiction towards the crime novel, but its suspense remains rooted in character and place. The offices, small enterprises and shadowed passages of a Chancery Inn create a compact picture of professional London immediately before the Second World War.
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